Landscapism

Music and landscape have always had a kinetic relationship, as essayed in my post   Songs like the grass are evergreen .   Perhaps this i...

I seem to be increasingly immersing myself in sounds and words that my younger, more culturally timid self, would have eschewed. It strik...

A circling plain, bleached flat in wide-screen by sun and overcoming sky; lonely home to hunting heron, bird-call and clearing thou...

The Church of Merthyr Issui at Patricio (now Partrishow) inhabits its location high up on the western slope of the Grwyne Fawr valley in t...

The summer rolls on remorselessly, harsh heat overcoming wasted shade; at such times reading becomes a relief from the unwavering su...

"I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath".   ...

Reliquiæ is an annual journal of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, translations and visual art, edited by Autumn Richardson & Ric...

Opening scene of Heart of Glass; directed by Werner Herzog, soundtrack by Popol Vuh, 1976 'After years of labour, after years o...

  Following on from Kill List and Sightseers , I'm looking forward to Ben Wheatley's forthcoming film A Field in England ; tapp...